Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain said his department's ability to fight forest fires will be diminished. Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne said operations at state parks may be reduced or even closed. Secretary of State Tom Schedler has already reduced staff and hours at museums.

Though much of the state's focus has been on how severe budget cuts will impact higher education and health care, statewide elected officials said reductions to their budgets will touch just about everyone in Louisiana.

Strain has been the most critical of Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration's proposed budget released Friday. He said the administration told him he would suffer a $4.3 million cut but submitted $5.8 million to the Legislature.

"I told the administration I don't accept it," Strain said. "Now the budget is in the legislators' hands. It's up to them. It's time for them to do the job the people sent them here to do.

"I'm going to stand up and fight for agriculture and ask anyone who would do the same to join me. This is just unacceptable."

Strain said the nursery program that provides 16 to 18 percent of the state's seedlings is gone. He said there will be fewer food inspectors and enforcement. And he said some forest fires may go untended.

"If we have a bad fire season we won't have the fuel or manpower to handle it properly, and there is nobody else to do the job," he said. "You can't fight fires without firemen and fuel. It's an increased risk to property and homes."

Strain, Dardenne and Schedler said their departments have taken a disproportionate share of the cuts.

"Statewide elected official represent less than 3 percent of the budget and are taking 16 percent of the cuts," Strain said. "There are real impacts to these cuts that people will notice.

"All I ask for is the assets to conduct the duties I'm constitutionally required to provide and to be treated fairly. My sector of the economy has doubled since 2008 to $12 billion. Why would you cut the fastest-growing sector of the economy."

"We're setting records in tourism, but I've already had to suspend our spring marketing campaign," he said. "We're one of the few areas of government that generates money for the government. A primary reason we've grown the tourism industry is through advertising and marketing."

Dardenne has already suspended swimming pool operations for the summer at the state parks that have them. In some parishes a state park pool is the only available public pool for swimming.

But it could get worse.

"I am concerned some parks may close," he said. Some historic sites in Marksville and Plaquemine have already close. "I'm anticipating significant cuts to all areas."

But Dardenne said he will protect the state's only World Heritage Site, Poverty Point in West Carroll Parish, at all costs. "I'm not closing one of only 22 World Heritage sites in America," he said.

Schedler, who called the cuts "absolutely Draconian," is eliminating his voter outreach program in addition to the already reduced hours and staffs at museums throughout the state.

"The only two areas unprotected constitutionally in my department are the museums and the outreach," he said. "We're still going to do outreach by using some current staff and developing a plan, but it a real loss."